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Incrementis / Tutorils-Historical-Encyclopedias-

Contains encyclopedias of in-game history book series to eliminate searching for the historybook parts. This is a mod for the Infinity Engine games BGEE(SoD),BG2EE and IWDEE.

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Item icons #5

Closed Incrementis closed 1 month ago

Incrementis commented 2 months ago

Each encyclopedia receives an individual book icon for the inventory and one for the ground icon. The description image can be the game's default image if it is needed at all, as it depends on the issue https://github.com/Incrementis/Tutorils-Historical-Encyclopedias-/issues/2.

[x] Description icons
[x] Ground icons
[x] Inventory icons

Incrementis commented 1 month ago

It seems that IWD:EE does not support item description image.

Incrementis commented 1 month ago

The ground incons must be tested first. A critical test point is the highlighting when the cursor is on the ground icon.

Incrementis commented 1 month ago

GROUND ICON:

It is possible to create a ground icon that is invisible AND without highlighting. As an example see/use picture.

The X is invisible and when the cursor is on that icon it is not highlighted. It's not clear what use case such a icon might have, but it's still interesting to know.

Incrementis commented 1 month ago

GROUND ICON:

The following image works as intended.

The color for the blue highlight is (GIMP):

Note: Before using the highlight color, the layer must be set to RGB and after usage then probably to 8Bit.

Incrementis commented 1 month ago

GROUND ICON:

The following image uses black color as the highlight color. That is, when the object is dropped on the ground, the black areas will be transparent like the shadow and when the floor icon is selected, the transparent areas will be visible in black. I can't say why. The actually desired blue area is visible and is not used as highlighting

Further investigations are required for reproducibility.

Incrementis commented 1 month ago

GROUND ICON:

When testing with the Near Infinity BAM converter tool, we found the following:

Index 1 within the color palette is a kind of definition of the color to be highlighted.
This said, index 1 will not work as expected if the color palette index does not match. This means that the highlighting will not work if there are identical colors in at least one index other than index 1. This is probably because the BAM converter “prioritizes” the other index values over index 1.

Still, this should be easy to solve now!

Incrementis commented 1 month ago

The ground icons for all encyclopedias all have the same image, but with different highlighting than the original game.